IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE — Berkeley Rep audio production

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Far-Right Twitter Trolls Won’t Admit They Were Wrong About Killing of a “Patriot” in Denver

  It was a reporter’s bodyguard, not an anti-fascist activist, who shot and killed a right-wing demonstrator who had assaulted him. The viral spread of those false claims apparently alarmed the Denver Police Department, which had taken Dolloff into custody along with the journalist he was guarding and quickly determined that they were not left-wing…

Enjoy the showmanship as a 94yo woman performs in a dance competition.

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They figured it out.

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Fall 2020 Midterm Grades: SUBMITTED

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Deadline seems to have briefly published, then taken down, story that says Pence has tested positive for coronavirus

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Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs broke the story of Hope Hicks’s COVID-19 Infection

Those darned reporters. Always publishing newsworthy facts of national importance that powerful people would rather keep silent. When Hicks tested positive, she worried about others around her who might be infected, too, but the White House sought to keep that information from the public. Without Jennifer Jacobs, a dogged Bloomberg reporter who broke the story…

NINE officials have COVID-19 after ‘superspreader’ SCOTUS event

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Donald Trump tests positive for Covid-19. CNN: “A nightmare scenario for the White House.”

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